Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care (PC) has advanced rapidly since 2005, when the World Health Assembly posited it as an urgent humanitarian need. Over the same period, the principles of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion have been promoted to implement sustainable PC. It is not known whether the Ottawa Charter principles have been integrated into existing PC efforts in low-income African countries. The purpose of this scoping review is to determine the state of knowledge on the consequences of health promoting PC (HPPC) interventions in African low-income countries.

Methods

We searched for literature published in English, French and Spanish between 2005 and 2022 in CINAHL, PubMed and PsycINFO. The inclusion criteria for studies were (1) conducted in African low-income countrie

SUBMITTER: Plaisance A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812776 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature